Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires.
Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Oregon#Wildfires#Map#Home#Misinformation#Climate#ClimateChange
Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does
When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.
Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does
When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.
Generative AI assistants are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the ad revenue they desperately need, in a blow to an industry already fighting for survival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/04/tech/ai-search-media-ecosystem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #chatgpt #ai #fakenews #misinformation #media #journalism #pressfreedom #censorship #newspapers #magazines #internet #publishers
NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.
What do you think?
By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.
NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.
What do you think?
By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.
#Google themself don't care a thing about the garbage and #misinformation on their platform. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114899129489765020
Witnessing the social dynamics on the cesspit that #Youtube is, is fascinating. Near nothing is genuine, everyone is hustling their channels.
Cool reaction vid? Wait until you see them react the 2nd time on that vid as if it was their 1st. Nice vid of people dancing on techno party, setting the crowd in motion? Staged. And your recommender will serve you more.
"A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant."
"Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?", The Guardian, Sun 13 Jul 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us
Archive link: https://archive.ph/Eu57Y
"A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant."
"Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?", The Guardian, Sun 13 Jul 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us
Archive link: https://archive.ph/Eu57Y
I came upon something by accident (because I quit it a long time ago) and I was shocked (SHOCKED I tell you!) about the rhetoric on Substack. Commenters show unabashed racism and homophobia... and there's dangerous misinformation around health stuff.
I reported some terrible, stomach-turning comments... and they are still up
🧡 Thank you for doing your part in reporting unacceptable online content! That is more than most folks would do.
(I work for a NGO in the US. We prevent violence against adolescents. Online content causes harm in many ways.)
Hopefully Substack has taken appropriate action by now.
If not, there might be some other options for reporting the content. This guidance from the Let's STOP Hate Speech group, funded by the EU might be helpful:
🌐https://absbg.eu/en/european-commission-combating-hate-speech-and-hate-crime/
#hatespeech #substack #misinformation #racism #publichealth #media
⚠️ YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows • TechCrunch
Beneath the #problematic surface, New York Times’ #Kursk reporting reveals a deeper moral rot
At the end of the day, this is just a very simple question of #moral fiber.
As a flagship Western #media outlet, in a country that has long been the center of the free world – but is now facing a moral crisis of its own – The New York Times has an inherent duty to #document these #historic events with some level of moral grounding.
Beneath the #problematic surface, New York Times’ #Kursk reporting reveals a deeper moral rot
At the end of the day, this is just a very simple question of #moral fiber.
As a flagship Western #media outlet, in a country that has long been the center of the free world – but is now facing a moral crisis of its own – The New York Times has an inherent duty to #document these #historic events with some level of moral grounding.
Content creators, often based in South Asia, are churning out AI-generated posts for money, targeting Westerners' emotional reactions to the Holocaust. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/15/world/society/holocaust-ai-fakes-alarm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #holocaust #ai #deepfakes #socialmedia #misinformation #wwii #genocide
A clash between Elon Musk’s xAI empire and European officials is intensifying with Poland and Germany calling for more aggressive action against the company following antisemitic comments made by the chatbot on X. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/10/tech/europe-musk-xai-grok/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #europe #elonmusk #xai #grok #ai #socialmedia #misinformation #eu #apps #x
Following deadly floods in Texas misinformation was roiling social media, with liberals baselessly blaming staff cuts at U.S. weather agencies for flawed warning systems and conservatives ramping up conspiracy theories. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/world/politics/texas-floods-misinformation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #texas #floods #misinformation #us #donaldtrump #republicans
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